Manufacture of hosiery.



- No. 876,797. PATENIIED JAN. 14, 1908.

G. H. GILBERT.

- MANUFACTURE OF HOSIERY.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1906.

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[NI EN TOR 1 Alioxheyo citizen of the-United States residinget Gen mantow'n, in the coiint oi v hiledel hia and State of Pennsylvania, ave invente certain new and .useful Improvements-in Manatee?" 4 ture of Hosiery; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull,v eleer, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable tains to make and use the same;

- ing have been made'of.wl1ite or uncolored stockings that shall be free frernithis ohjecstocking is also 0 en to t thread is more orless'visible from the outside wandvthe whole of the outside of the stocking surface as comes in contact with the foot. with the stockings have often been the cause of blood .tom of the foot and toe.

"inone We or another. The White foot and 1 "such portion having a'mottled vs pearanee,

composed of a blending of-the col GEORGE E; eitssn'rjor eesimrre s, Whereas hpplicatioa filed; August 27.

To an; whom it may concern: 1

Be itknown that I, GEORGE H; GILBERT, a.

others skilled in the art to which it appee My present invention relates to the class of hosiery and has for its object the providing of colored stockingsof all kinds withen uncolored interior surface or for such portion of the reatest pressure.

een claimed by many thetcolored It has oiso es eciall in cases where for an ause tl ig ski ii of tli; foot of the-wearer he become abraded. In order to hard against this, stockings having entirely white feet have beeh made and put on the'market. There also have been stockings made in which the heel, bottom of the foot and toe of the stock yarn. It has also been proposed to make tion .by knittin the pei'tion desired of two threads, one o the color desired and the other a White thread end pleiting'the white thread on the inside of thefoot or heel, hot- These various forms of stockings are each open to objection the white eel, sole and toe'e're objectionable as the white often becomes stained and dis colored from contact with the leather of the shoe and becomes unsightl The laited e o jectiont at the gljzaited portiono' the stocking is never of the color of the main body of the stocking,

ors of the plaite'd yarns, In such -.cases' the white is not of the uniform color desired; t

By myinvention 1' obviate these objections and-produce a stocking which has the desired it is desired to hi 'can he te t gsrd to its form umfor 'n color on the exjterior and yet has a s is- 432;.

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White such stocking see I stocking end the cei sired diseh: diam, 0i" 5 have the desired dise'hs restored te its The stocking er and then such, per

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In the dr Q or gait-sewers of e of my intention made te hate a so of coioring uniferm thro I my i- 1 ters Patent is 1. A stocking compos or? 4 web having a complete eel the entire em. ei'ior th r surface on the int" is tielly' as deseriioed- 2. Astocking composed of a, single knitted ored interior surface, substantially as de- 10 web having a, complete color scheme covering scribed. the entire exterior of the stocking and having In testimony whereof I affix my signature, an. uncolored surface on the interior of the in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 foot, substantially as described.

3. A stocking composed of a' single knitted Q GEORGEFH' GILBERT I Web having a complete colorscheme covering Witnesses: the entire exterior of the stocking and having WM. H. EMHARDT,

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